mumtaz

“We will tell each other that
we can't choose
between one country and another,
we will tell each other
that we kill
even if we don't want to,
we will regret saying it
and we will start
all over again.
Your pain will hang inside mine, mine inside yours, you will
comb my hair, and I will comb yours.
You will press your ears against my wall,
I will press mine against your body,
we will love and search
we will try and live
with what follows us–
but no one can change this:
we are unable to tear
our eyes from each other”
― Nathalie Handal, [(Poet in Andalucia)] [Author: Nathalie Handal] published on

“That's what time was like, along with the things occupying it, that it made the feelings connected to any memory seem worthless.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, Sarajevo Blues

“and when you love. you let it go. you put it down. you show your shoulders what to do with sky. and love is how. and love is when. and love is why.”
― Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Dub: Finding Ceremony

“6

So there is nothing permanent left at the end
but mind alone and absolute
Even the pictures or idea-images
have been withdrawn at the last moment
and replaced by their pure captions
And it is the most ideal self alone consequently
that goes on permanently
spangled with concepts that are neither
gold nor silver but pure water
to infinity"

(59)”
― Fouad Gabriel Naffah, mind-god & the properties of nitrogen